Mary:
Thank you for these thoughts. I will be including some of this information
both in the proposal and in DC-Lib.
Rebecca
On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Mary Woodley wrote:
> Rebecca,
>
> I feel a separate field for the "owner" of the resource who may not be
> the publisher - this is especially true in the case of collaborative
> projects. It would parallel the VRA element Location.Current Repository.
> What is not clear to me what is the best encoding scheme for the content
> of the field. You have mentioned the MARC code list for organizations, I
> would prefer the NAF form of the organization so if the element content
> is displayed, it is not a code but readable name. I would not assume
> software to convert the code. For collaborative projects, it becomes
> important to identify the ownership. Rights are often expressed by a URL
> not a name.
>
> Mary
>
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